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Avila Foundation Inc

Avila Foundation Inc (Alabama) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,959,157 to it, the largest being KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC ($1,040,600). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.1M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$3.0M
Net assets
$1.0M
10/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Avila Foundation Inc does

Mission

The Avila Institute provides online spiritual education and formation to Catholics around the world. The institute offers graduate, personal enrichement, and continuing education courses.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The Avila Foundation uses live and online events to further spread our mission and help people grow closer to the Lord.

    $827,119 spent$827,274 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. The High Calling Program helps form men who are discerning the priesthood. They go through a one-year propaedeutic year before entering seminary.

  3. The Avila Institute provides online spiritual education and formation to Catholics around the world. The institute offers graduate, personal enrichment and continuing education courses. The Avila Institute offers scholarships to priests, religious and lay people to attend the Institute.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $827,119.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($440k) Expenses 100 ($403k) Net assets 100 ($154k)2018 Revenue 144 ($635k) Expenses 127 ($511k) Net assets 181 ($278k)2019 Revenue 182 ($803k) Expenses 202 ($812k) Net assets 175 ($269k)2020 Revenue 188 ($828k) Expenses 216 ($872k) Net assets 147 ($225k)2021 Revenue 301 ($1.3M) Expenses 275 ($1.1M) Net assets 289 ($444k)2022 Revenue 543 ($2.4M) Expenses 466 ($1.9M) Net assets 621 ($955k)2023 Revenue 539 ($2.4M) Expenses 600 ($2.4M) Net assets 593 ($911k)2024 Revenue 572 ($2.5M) Expenses 636 ($2.6M) Net assets 563 ($866k)2025 Revenue 706 ($3.1M) Expenses 738 ($3.0M) Net assets 652 ($1.0M)
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Revenue (706)Expenses (738)Net assets (652)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $634k to $1.2M (+90%).

$166k
$291k
$275k
$247k
$634k
$1.2M
$1.0M
$957k
$1.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

73% of Avila Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,735 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$37k
’17
$124k
’18
−$9k
’19
−$44k
’20
$219k
’21
$511k
’22
−$44k
’23
−$45k
’24
$136k
’25
3.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed997777768
Joined·+0+0+0+0+1+0+0+2
No longer listed·02001010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $140k → $576k.

7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Avila Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Avila Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

95% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Avila Foundation Inc.

35%
largest funder
85%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 96% · 2019 87% · 2020 71% · 2021 84% · 2022 48% · 2023 69% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

50% of Avila Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

78% of Avila Foundation Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $663k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Alabama, across 10 states.

ID
MI
OH
PA
NJ
CA
DE
DC
AL
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Avila Foundation Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve3.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)28% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Avila Foundation Inc

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Alabama

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

28% of spending goes to programs.

Program 28%Management 55%Fundraising 17%

Governance

6
board members
67%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Apostles of the Way · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Avila Foundation Inc?
Avila Foundation Inc (Alabama) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,959,157 to it, the largest being KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC ($1,040,600). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Avila Foundation Inc have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,959,157 in grants to Avila Foundation Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Avila Foundation Inc?
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,040,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Avila Foundation Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing